Music-making activities for our youngest children will include:

• singing games and rhymes
• exploring sound using instruments and everyday objects
• listening to a variety of pieces of music

Click HERE to find out about music activities with children in Cherrytree EYC, Ayr in session 2021/22

Teaching and Learning Resources

Are available through our SharePoint site. These include:

• Listen, Talk and Play
• Move and Play
• Play and Create
• Singing games and Rhymes

These resources require a GLOW login to access and are currently only available to South Ayrshire staff.

Click this link to access the South Ayrshire Early Years Music Resources

 

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Taking part in music making activities contributes to a child’s overall development. It supports the development of:

Health and Wellbeing

• I can cope with new situations
• I can share and cooperate with others
• I can engage in physical activity

Communication and Language

• I can listen and recognise words that rhyme
• I can identify and tap out syllables in words
• I can recognise and name some letters
• I can listen. understand and respond
• I can retell a story / song that I have heard
• I can talk about what I am learning

Mathematics and Numeracy

• I can talk about more or less to compare quantities – e.g. of musical instruments playing
• I can count items accurately and consistently – e.g. in songs and rhymes
• Number track – e.g. in songs and rhymes
• I can recognise and copy a simple pattern
• I can use positional language – e.g. in front, behind, under, beside